Can you identify this yacht?

Does anyone know this Yacht?

I saw the Yacht below whilst on holiday in Kefalonia a couple of weeks ago, can anyone shed any light on what it is etc details. I know nothing about boats but am interested o understand what it was I saw. Many thanks in advance.

Brilliant! Thanks so much for that, it's a beautiful boat indeed. Just nice to know what is you have seen.

Cool with the picture size,

That is definetly not an easily reckonizable Feadship. They must have gotten in some young designers at Feadship becuase since this last decade or so Feadship has really put out designs that could hardly be reckonized as there own unless you knew..

Help me identify this yacht?

my son, the architect, working in copenhagen, sent me these pix.

thx. for more details....

That is a Sunseeker 95 Predator. I dont know her name.

She is the ATTESSA, ex. LADY AVIVA, a 1998 Feadship-Royal Van Lent & Zonen, 225'.

The boat belongs to Charles Simonyi he was an employee of Microsoft very early on back in the early 1980's. He was also bought a trip on the Space Station for 25 million dollars. He is currently the founder of Intentional Software. Developing new methods of speeding software development. He help develop the hugely popular Office application at Microsoft. He was a leading developer of WYSIWYG document preparation program at Xerox PARC with Butler Lampson. Paul Allen and Charles are good friends and Charles has been on all three of Paul Allen's yachts. Just wanted to add that information about Skat.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2005/05/16/newscolumn3.html

PEB, you just posted the kind of information that does not belong on YachtForums. In this case, it was no big secret, but otherwise we are focused on yachts, not owners. Welcome here anyway!

Sorry I just saw in the other forum that someone linked to where it was stated that Bill Gates was the owner. I am familiar with Charles and that is was pretty public knowledge about Charles ownership of the Yacht. Sorry I would not have spoken about his ownership if it was not public information.

Hi,

If you don't feel the info belongs here Lars just delete it. I have seen since my membership here that efforts are made to refrain from discussing owners details so I don't feel as an ordinary member that any reasonable member would object to some editing of the post.

I can see the boat from where I am sitting now.

Question,,
I have seen a lot of postings through time about not posting yacht owners names.

But why is that considered so bad?

Can someone like a famous golfer who owns a large Christenson yacht that doesn't want any one to know sue Y F becuase some people bloged about him?

Are we that powerful of people to do harm to a multi-billionare by talking about his accomplishments in the marine industry?

Just curious for a different view in the subject.....

Here she is, Itasca, a well known explorer yacht: http://www.buyexploreryachts.com/brokerage-itasca.html

The main reason we don´t discuss owners are for their privacy and security. Of course we doesn´t want this forum to be a tabloid filled with gossip either.

As you probably have experienced, when a yacht is coming into a new port, a lot of people want to know who is the owner. Most of the time the crew are not revealing this and so they search the net. As we don´t know who in this crazy world is searching, we should not provide such easy access to owner information.

Some owners don´t mind to be connected with their yacht, it could even be important for them to use the yacht as a marketing tool, but many want to keep it away from the public scene.

We would like to respect this as a general rule and focus on the yachts instead.